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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: ABBA, Bjorn Skifs, Ted Gardestad, Carola Haggkvist, Monica Tornell, Charlotte Perrelli, Lena Philipsson, Eric Saade, The Ark, Kikki Danielsson, Jan Johansen, Anna Bergendahl, Elisabeth Andreassen, Malena Ernman, Jill Johnson, Mikael Erlandsson, Brita Borg, Monica Zetterlund, Tommy Korberg, Lill-Babs, Gigi Hamilton, Alice Babs, Tommy Nilsson, Ingvar Wixell, Siw Malmkvist, Nanne Gronvall, Ola Salo, Tomas Ledin, Herreys, Svante Thuresson, Lill Lindfors, Lotta Engberg, Martin Stenmarck, Chips, Friends, One More Time, Fame, Edin-Adahl, Blossom Tainton-Lindquist, Lasse Berghagen, Osten Warnerbring, Afro-dite, Roger Pontare, Arvingarna, Lasse Holm, Maria Radsten, Christer Bjorkman, Lars Ljungberg, Marie Bergman, Dea Norberg, Forbes, Claes-Goran Hederstrom, Inger Berggren, Martin Axen, Family Four, Blond, Malta. Excerpt: ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 which consisted of Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of pop music, topping the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. ABBA sold over 375 million records worldwide, which made them the fourth best-selling popular music artists in the history of recorded music. They still sell between two to three million albums a year. ABBA was the first pop group to come from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin American markets (Particularly Mexico), and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. During the band's active years, Faltskog and Ulvaeus were a married couple, as were Lyngstad and Andersson-although both couples later divorced....